Re: output a table

Anthony, You can use a variable ($i in the example) and increment its value in the while statement. Then check its value - if its odd or not - this works:-) Good luck:-)) Veselina <? $i=0; while($row = odbc_fetch_row($result)) { $i++;

     ?>
    <tr>
      <td width="22%" align="center" bgcolor="#<? echo $i % 2 ? "F4F4F4" : "ddeeff"; ?>"><font>
          <? echo odbc_result($result,5). " ". odbc_result($result,2). " ". odbc_result($result,3)." ".
             odbc_result($result,4); ?> </font></td>
      <td width="31%" align="center" bgcolor="#<? echo $i % 2 ? "F4F4F4" : "ddeeff"; ?>"><font><? echo odbc_result($result,1); ?> </font></td>
      <td width="7%" align="center" bgcolor="#<? echo $i % 2 ? "F4F4F4" : "ddeeff"; ?>"><font><? echo odbc_result($result,6); ?></font></td>
      <td width="20%" align="center" bgcolor="#<? echo $i % 2 ? "F4F4F4" : "ddeeff"; ?>"><font><? echo odbc_result($result,7); ?></font></td>
    </tr>
        <?

} ?> At 20:36 8/19/03 -0400, Anthony Ritter wrote:

Hi... I'm trying to output a table with alternate background color rows. The following snippet outputs a table after connecting to a mySQL database with posts but all of the rows have the same bgcolor. Any help with the syntax will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Tony Ritter ........................................ <? <table width=100% cellpadding=3 cellspacing=1 border=1> <tr> <th bgcolor=\"#497fbf\"><font color=\"#ffffff\">AUTHOR</font> </th> <th bgcolor=\"#497fbf\"><font color=\"#ffffff\">POST</font></th> </tr>"; while ($posts_info = mysql_fetch_array($get_posts_res)) {

       $post_id = $posts_info['post_id'];
       $post_text = nl2br(stripslashes($posts_info['post_text']));
       $post_create_time = $posts_info['fmt_post_create_time'];
       $post_owner = stripslashes($posts_info['post_owner']);

       $color1 = "#CCFFCC";
       $color2 = "#BFD8BC";
       $posts_info = 0;
       $row_color = ($posts_info % 2) ? $color1 : $color2;

       //add to display
       $display_block .= "
       <tr>
       <td width=35% valign=top

bgcolor=\"$row_color\"><p>$post_owner<br>[$post_create_time]</td>

       <td width=65% valign=top bgcolor=\"$row_color\"><p>$post_text<br><br>
       <a href=\"replytopost.php?post_id=$post_id\"><strong>REPLY TO

POST</strong></a></td>

       </tr>";

} //close up the table $display_block .= "</table>"; ?> -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php